Transported to the Yorkshire Moors

The Mirror US asked its writers to share their favourite books and one of them picked Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 1847

Audience writer for Spare Time, Isobel Pankhurst said: "It’s so hard to choose a favourite with so many options out there, and I almost had to do a coin toss to choose between Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice. I guess I just really love a plot that can be simplified down to ‘people going to other people’s houses.’

"When I first read Wuthering Heights for A-Level English Literature, unlike plenty of other books I’d read for school, I immediately fell in love. Brontë’s atmospheric writing made me feel as though I was really transported to the Yorkshire Moors and witnessing the dramatic events of the novel myself.

"The ideas presented in the novel surrounding abuse, human nature, and the societal class structures are sadly just as relevant today as they were almost 200 years ago, making this a truly timeless novel.

"The characters are just as flawed and multifaceted as any real person, and Heathcliff’s gradual descent into what can only be described as true madness is a truly terrifying read.

"It’s a real tragedy that Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë’s only novel, having passed away just a year after its publication, and it really leaves one wondering just what other stories she would have written had she lived longer." (Talya Honebeek)

The Financial Times Weekend Quiz includes a Brontë question:

5 Which of the three Brontë sisters died first? (James Walton)

Stuff (New Zealand) invites its readers to 'Embrace your inner Brontë in this windswept Whangārei retreat'.

Like something from a windswept Brontë novel, the stone house at Taiharuru Cove, Whangārei, sits high above the rugged coast, surrounded by hectares of native bush. (Kylie Klein Nixon)